By Bill Wilson
Investor's Business Daily
July 18, 2012
Five months ago Barack Obama nominated union backer, liberal
economist and Federal Reserve bureaucrat Erica Groshen to lead the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) — the agency best known for calculating
the nation's unemployment rate each month.
Obviously Groshen's nomination was yet another sop to organized labor
— which doled out big dollars and major manpower to help elect Obama in
2008 (and which has already been rewarded handsomely for its efforts).
It was also yet another endorsement of the failed Keynesian
interventionism that Obama has continued to foist on our private sector
ever since he was elected — with disastrous consequences for our
nation's economy.
But this particular appointment represents much more than just
another lifetime left winger being tapped by Obama to fill a lofty
taxpayer-funded perch. For starters, Groshen's background is more
explicitly linked to overt anti-American ideologies than any Obama
appointee since his infamous "green jobs czar" Van Jones.
Such radical ideological moorings are cause for real concern given
that Groshen is being asked to preside over an agency where the
inviolability of hard, methodologically obtained data — not the specter
of ideological influence — is vital to maintaining institutional
neutrality and credibility.
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